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Show , I "SOME BUI HJOB" "if SAYS BILL O'CONNOR I Business Manager Wildly , Enthusiastic After Seeing Players m Action i v W J 0 Connor b s ness manager of the Bait Lake baseball club returned yesterdav after a sw ng around the Coat league circuit or at least the I : California part of it , Talk about your ball clubs al lowed B 11 Say Blankensbip Ms got the greatest bunch of ball players ou ever saw There is more pep in that I crowd than jou d see m a summer traveling Eerybody wants to plav I , ball all day and most of them are out almost before daylight 1 Blankensh p is certa nly np aga nst hard propos tion to cut down to 6 ze , It s a job that will require tha careful attention of the astute Blank and 1 t. don t envy him the nob When it comes u to deciding which ot those boys are the ' better well 1 don t see how it can be : : done, they re all better ; The people of th s town are go ng ' to see some baseball th s year that w 11 I, , make them forget there ever was a base . - ball club here before Why say tho e ' i I Coast ball players are the real thing ' v f the real thing I m telling you ' Are Real Ball Players f. ' In the game Sundav w th the Wh te t Sox our boys played -inst as good if not I better ball than the b g leaguers after I they got past the first nn ng The t- 1 ground was in ter ble cond t on and t I was colder than it is here today But it didn t keep Blank s boys from ? clout ng the ball Vfe outh t 'em you I know and the hitt ng was all on the r square If Jack Halla keeps up the work A he s doing now there w 11 be no need to worrv about lingling, because Jack and Leity Will ams will certa nly be the class of the league in southpaws I saw Buddy Ryan and Elmer Zacher out there cracking em and let me tell you that Kj an is some swatter He seems to lake only about an e ght nch swing, but when he connects with that ball there s someth ng doing for the shag I gers He is a beaut f ul fielder too and ' E s injured leg apparently has entirelj reco ered Like Byrd Ljnn Everybody is talking about Byrd Lynn Blank s young catcher Vrom what I saw of h m they haven t said any too much The way he shoots the ball around the bases s something good to see In practice he had all the base men begging for mercy " The pitching staff looks swell It is of course too early to say touch about the hurlers but Blankenship thinks he has a bunth that will need httje or no fixing Sunday s game was not without Salt Lake rooters President Murphy of our 4 cl b was there and so were Dr Will ' Ellerbeck. D T Fredenckson and one or two otters We made as much no se as possible and it was quite a lot for our numbers The weather has been I very unfavorable and the California , t sunshine wasn t in evidence However I everyone says that the sun s bound to shine right awav and then there will be real work under baseball cond Hons Ackmann a Pnze Blankensh p s certainly fortunate in gett ng the sricc9 of I oc Ack rnann as tra ner If ever a tra ner i knew his business that same Doc i Ackmann knows his He has been in the game for years, and knows all about the I peculiarities of sore arms and charhe liosses and he s popular w th the boys too " k Bill says ho was enterta ned rovally b the bus nese managers of the other clubs and learned a lot of th ngs about the r methols of long th ngs He is t not impre 1 v h tho new fanglod turnst le and th nk he w 11 recommend the retaliation of the stiles that have been tried and proved 0 Connor will toda ssue a call for I the second payment on club stocl |